25 February 2017
execrate
[ek-si-kreyt]
verb (used with object), execrated, execrating.
1. to detest utterly; abhor; abominate.
2. to curse; imprecate evil upon; damn; denounce:
He execrated all who opposed him.
verb (used without object), execrated, execrating.
3. to utter curses.
Origin of execrate
Latin
1555-1565; < Latin ex (s) ecrātus (past participle of ex (s) ecrārī to curse), equivalent to ex- ex-1+ secr- (combining form of sacrāre to consecrate; see sacrament ) + -ātus -ate1
Related forms
execrator, noun
unexecrated, adjective
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Examples from the Web for execrate
Historical Examples
But the day will, come when they will execrate Pierce before Benedict Arnold, sir.
The Crisis, Complete
Winston Churchill
I execrate the enslavement of the mind of our young children by the ecclesiastics.
The Necessity of Atheism
Dr. D.M. Brooks
As it was, we could do nothing but stand there and execrate them, which naturally was useless.
The Putumayo, The Devil’s Paradise
Walter Hardenburg
And yet, have I a right to execrate the thrall of the beaker?
Cleopatra, Complete
Georg Ebers
Why do we execrate in one set of men, what we laud so highly in another?
An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans
Lydia Maria Child
He longed to execrate aloud, to bring his fist down on something violently.
Dubliners
James Joyce
And just as I reverence this, do I execrate, with all my heart’s indignation, a corrupt judicature.
The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II.(of II)
Charles James Lever
I pity the man, I execrate and hate the man who has only to boast that he is white.
The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 9 (of 12)
Robert G. Ingersoll
But they refused to execrate, and made peace with him on the condition of their paying tribute.
Selections From The Kur-an
Edward William Lane
One learns in these aged lands to hate and execrate the past.
Venetian Life
William Dean Howells
Anagram
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Today’s quote
I Did Not Attend the Funeral, But I Sent a Nice Letter Saying I Approved of It
– Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar – however, it has been incorrectly attributed to Mark Twain
On this day
25 February 1917 – birth of Anthony Burgess, English writer. Most famous for his dystopian novel, ‘The Clockwork Orange’, which Stanley Kubrick made into a controversial movie. Died 22 November 1993.
25 February 1921 – The Russian Army seized the capital of Georgia, eventually incorporating the republic into the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
25 February 1948 – communist rule established in Czechoslovakia by President Eduard Benes.
25 February 1982 – the European Court of Human Rights rules that beating school children without the consent of their parents is a violation of the Human Rights Convention.
25 February 1986 – The People Power Revolution in the Philippines results in the ousting of corrupt dictator Ferdinand Marcos who is airlifted from the Presidential Palace in Manila by U.S. helicopters. The U.S. repatriated him to Hawaii where he lived in exile until his death in 1989 at the age of 72. Marcos had stolen billions from the Philippine treasury and was a suspect in the 1983 assassination of Benigno Aquino, the opposition party leader.
25 February 2001 – death of Sir Donald Bradman (The Don), Australia’s (and arguably, the world’s) greatest cricketer. In his last Test, Bradman’s batting average was 101.39 runs per innings, but on the second ball he faced, he was bowled for a duck (zero), reducing his batting average to 99.94. It is the highest batting average in test cricket. Born 27 August 1908.